"Lake Chad"

Map of lake and surrounding region

圖中之Mao 不知與毛澤東有無關係--無

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Wikipedia article "Mao, Chad".

Wikipedia article "Lake Chad".
In the 1960s it had an area of more than 26,000 km², making it the fourth largest lake in Africa. By 2000 its extent had fallen to less than 1,500 km². This is due to reduced rainfall combined with greatly increased amounts of irrigation water being drawn from the lake and the rivers which feed it, the largest being the Chari/ Logon system, which originates in the mountains of the Central African Republic. It seems likely that the lake will shrink further and perhaps even disappear altogether in the course of the 21st century.